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Community Housing Trust

The primary purpose of the COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST is to provide housing for homeless persons through (I) acquiring or facilitating the acquisition of residential property or (ii) leasing or facilitating the leasing of residential property.

$108k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$33,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Community Housing Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20223$108k0%
FY20215$170k60%
FY20203$35k67%
FY20192$20k100%
FY20183$105k33%
FY20172$95kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Housing & Shelter$533k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friendship Place$170,00021%
Wanda Alston Foundation Inc$110,00034%
Lydia's House in Southeast$75,00028%
Community of Hope$58,00030%
Homeless Children's Playtime Project$50,00013%
Casa Ruby Inc$25,00020%
Covenant House Washington DC$20,00020%
Street Sense Inc$10,00013%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc$10,00010%
Pathways to Housing DC$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Housing Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriendship Place: $170,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWanda Alston Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetLydia's House in Southeast: $75,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCommunity of Hope: $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Children's Playtime Project: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCasa Ruby Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCovenant House Washington DC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStreet Sense Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPathways to Housing DC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Community Housing Trust?

Find your warmest path to Community Housing Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Community Housing Trust

How much does Community Housing Trust give?
Community Housing Trust reported 3 grants totaling $108,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Community Housing Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (100%).
Who are Community Housing Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Friendship Place ($170k), Wanda Alston Foundation Inc ($110k), Lydia's House in Southeast ($75k).
Does Community Housing Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Housing Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Network for Good, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Community Housing Trust based?
Community Housing Trust is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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